Eine Alpensinfonie

[Guest]

Kent Nagano just about to conduct on Sky Arts 2.

[french frank]

EA's on holiday! Let's hope he doesn't miss it.

[Bryn]

Kent Nagano just about to conduct on Sky Arts 2.

Would that be the old performance available on DVD since 2007?

[Richard Tarleton]

Could well be. There may well be people who don't have the DVD who might have been glad of the heads up. There was a Bruckner 8 from the same stable a few days ago.

[DracoM]

Yes, I think it's a 2006 performance. Nagano is certainly not well enough to conduct it at the moment, is he?

[Bryn]

Yes, I think it's a 2006 performance. Nagano is certainly not well enough to conduct it at the moment, is he?

Eh?

http://www.montrealgazette.com/news/Orford+Festival+Kent+Nagano+make+poetry+mountain/7057629/story.html

[Richard Tarleton]

Yes, I think it's a 2006 performance. Nagano is certainly not well enough to conduct it at the moment, is he?

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I assumed it was a recording, I didn't think it was live, I was just drawing attention to the fact that it was on, knowing that one or two people are interested in this work.

[DracoM]

Indeed. I was actually asking the question.I thought I caught the date in the credits at the end and was asking if I had been mistaken.

[Richard Tarleton]

Indeed. I was actually asking the question.I thought I caught the date in the credits at the end and was asking if I had been mistaken.

Missed that (the date).
Is he not well?

I'm looking forward to EA at the Proms on 7 Sept.

[Richard Tarleton]

A thrilling performance - and no gushing presenter. Yes, it was 2006. I had never heard of The Deutsche Orchestra of Berlin, but that principal trumpet was fantastic (and so were the rest of them of course) The strings showed total commitment.
My only complaint is the camera work which was ludicrous and off-putting. Peering into the f hole of a violin at one moment and displaying the whole orchestra upside down the next - and those out-of-focus blobs of light intruding across the screen.

But do try to catch this performance if SkyArts repeat it. Close your eyes, if neccesary and enjoy a wonderful performance



HS

Thanks HS, yes the camerawork was a bit over-excited - especially during the Storm scene. I had tuned in at about 1930 expecting to find Brahms 4 in progress (Radio Times) but it was part way through a programme interspersing bits of rehearsal and performance of EA with Kent Nagano talking thoughtfully about the work. The actual performance I too found terrific

[JohnSkelton]

I had never heard of The Deutsche Orchestra of Berlin

http://www.dso-berlin.de/content/e54...index_eng.html might be interesting, HS.

[cloughie]

http://www.dso-berlin.de/content/e54...index_eng.html might be interesting, HS.

You mean Fricsay's old RIAS band!

[JohnSkelton]

You mean Fricsay's old RIAS band!

Indeed so .

[Roehre]

You mean Fricsay's old RIAS band!

It was Berlin's third orchestra: after the West Berlin Berliner Philharmoniker, the East Berlin Berliner Sinfoniker the Americans in their sector established a radio station (Rundfunk im Amerikanischen Sektor) including a full-fledged radio symphony orchestra.
After the fall of the Wall and the 1990 withdrawel of the Americans, RIAS became part of RBB (Rundfunk Berlin Brandenburg) and the orchestra became the Deutsches Sinfonie Orchester (-Berlin). Though now independent they still do a lot of work for RBB.

[Flosshilde]

Thanks HS, yes the camerawork was a bit over-excited - especially during the Storm scene. I had tuned in at about 1930

Perhaps it was Busby Berkely directing?

Shouldn't there be a . between 19 and 30 to indicate a time?


(Sorry - I thought this was Pedants' Corner )